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In your hearts, honor Christ the Lord. 1 Peter 3:15

To “honor Christ the Lord” means to place all that you are, all that you have, and all that you hope to be into His hands and submit your whole self to Him.

It means that you say to Christ, “You are the One who tells me who I am, why I’m here, and what I am to do.” It means you hold all that you have in this life with an open hand, using the word “my” tentatively.

  • ‘My’ house means the house that God has entrusted to me for a time.
  • ‘My’ family means the loved ones who are lent to me for a time.
  • ‘My’ work means the service God has called me to do for a time.
  • ‘My’ money is the resource God has entrusted me to steward on His behalf.
  • ‘My’ friends are the people God has given as companions for a few laps of the journey.
  • ‘My’ life is the time God has given me to serve at His pleasure until He calls me home.

We will do much better when it comes to dealing with loss (a position, a person, or property) if we believe and remember that what we have belongs to God and is loaned to us for a time.

C. H. Spurgeon says, “A man does not cry when he has to return a tool which he has borrowed… He knew that he borrowed it, he never called it his own, and he hands it back thankful that he had it for so long.”

When Jesus is the sovereign Lord over your life, death, and eternity, what have you to fear?